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This is a file in the correspondence of Thomas Merton under the heading: "Coltman, Edward J.".
Ted Coltman was writing Merton from Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of The Current.
Please click here for general restrictions concerning Merton's correspondence.
If the person in correspondence with Merton has full text records in the Merton Center Digital Collections, there will be a numeric link to them below.
This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.
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| # | Date | From/To | First Lines | Pub ✓ | Notes |
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1966/12/13 |
TLS to Merton |
I wrote you at the end of October concerning the questions of your writing for THE CURRENT |
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asks Merton for article on "philosophy of solitude"
«detailed view» |
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1966/12/22 |
TLS to Merton |
I was most pleased to receive your note yesterday saying that you would write something on solitude. |
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Disputed Questions - section on solitude / Christian perspective on solitude to accompany section on the problem of loneliness in modern life
«detailed view» |
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1967/06/18 (#01) |
TL[c] from Merton |
Thanks for your very interesting letter. I'm replying while I can, because my ability to get |
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Merton may work on the subject of cowardice with an analyst friend - "a lot of the pacifism around is utterly worthless" - world needs a new "creative breakthrough" and a "really revolutionary humility" in dealing with problem of violence / celibacy issue "too symbolic and too complex" to comment upon
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1967/06/18 (#02) |
TL[x] from Merton |
Thanks for your very interesting letter. I'm replying while I can, because my ability to get |
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[same as previous record but better xerox with Shannon's notes and full final sentence]
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1967/06/no? |
TALS to Merton |
Yesterday I read a piece in Commentary that was clearly written with a good deal of feeling and |
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Coltman's reaction to an article from Commentary entitled, "On Cowardice" - confronting violence and anger / Coltman analyzing his own pacifism - is it cowardice? - starting to distrust non-violence / Coltman does not understand vow of celibacy - his thinking on a concept he calls "anti-entropy"
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